Roman
['rəʊmən] or ['romən]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a typeface used in ancient Roman inscriptions.
(noun.) a resident of modern Rome.
(noun.) an inhabitant of the ancient Roman Empire.
(adj.) of or relating to or derived from Rome (especially ancient Rome); 'Roman architecture'; 'the old Roman wall' .
(adj.) relating to or characteristic of people of Rome; 'Roman virtues'; 'his Roman bearing in adversity'; 'a Roman nose' .
(adj.) of or relating to or supporting Romanism; 'the Roman Catholic Church' .
(adj.) characteristic of the modern type that most directly represents the type used in ancient Roman inscriptions .
乔斯林編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Of or pertaining to Rome, or the Roman people; like or characteristic of Rome, the Roman people, or things done by Romans; as, Roman fortitude; a Roman aqueduct; Roman art.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Roman Catholic religion; professing that religion.
(a.) Upright; erect; -- said of the letters or kind of type ordinarily used, as distinguished from Italic characters.
(a.) Expressed in letters, not in figures, as I., IV., i., iv., etc.; -- said of numerals, as distinguished from the Arabic numerals, 1, 4, etc.
(n.) A native, or permanent resident, of Rome; a citizen of Rome, or one upon whom certain rights and privileges of a Roman citizen were conferred.
(n.) Roman type, letters, or print, collectively; -- in distinction from Italics.
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同義詞及近義詞:
a. [1]. Of Rome, of the Romans.[2]. Of the Latins, of ancient Rome.[3]. Roman Catholic, of the Roman Catholic religion.
n. [1]. Native of Rome.[2]. Roman Catholic.
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解釋/意思:
adj. pertaining to Rome or to the Romans: pertaining to the Roman Catholic religion papal: (print.) noting the letters commonly used as opposed to Italics: written in letters (as IV.) not in figures (as 4).—n. a native or citizen of Rome: a Romanist in religion: a Roman letter or type.—adj. Roman′ic pertaining to Rome or its people.—n. Romanisā′tion.—v.t. Rō′manīse to convert to the Roman Catholic religion: to Latinise: to represent by Roman letters or types.—v.i. to conform to Roman Catholic opinions or practices: to print in Roman letters.—n. Romanī′ser.—adj. Rō′manish pertaining to Romanism.—ns. Rō′manism the tenets of the Roman Catholic Church; Rō′manist a Roman Catholic.—adj. Roman Catholic.—adj. Rō′mano-Byzan′tine pertaining to an early medieval style of architecture in which Byzantine and Western elements are combined.—ns. Rome′-penn′y -scot Peter's pence.—adv. Rome′ward toward the Roman Catholic Church.—adj. Rō′mish belonging to Rome or to the Roman Catholic Church.—n. Rō′mist.—Roman architecture a style characterised by the size and boldness of its round arches and vaults &c.—baths aqueducts basilicas amphitheatres &c.; Roman candle a firework discharging a succession of white or coloured stars; Roman Catholic denoting those who recognise the spiritual supremacy of the Pope or Bishop of Rome—as a noun a member of the Roman Catholic Church; Roman Catholicism the doctrines and polity of the Roman Catholic Church collectively; Roman cement a cement which hardens under water; Roman collar a collar made of lawn or fine linen bound and stitched worn by priests over a black collar by bishops over a purple and cardinals over a scarlet; Roman Empire the ancient empire of Rome divided in the 4th century into the Eastern and Western Empires; Roman law the civil law.—Holy Roman Empire (see Holy).
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例句/造句/用法:
- After the destruction of Palmyra, the desert Arabs began to be spoken of in the Roman and Persian records as Saracens. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- His model was a po em by Empedocles on Nature, the grand hexameters of which had fasci nated the Roman poet. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Ravenna, near the head of the Adriatic, was the capital of the last Roman emperors in the time of Alaric and Stilicho. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- It need hardly be remarked that his use both of Greek and of Roman historians and of the sacred writings of the Jews is wholly uncritical. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- It had to go to school to Greco-Roman civilization; it also borrowed rather than evolved its culture. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- And he did not believe in the extreme discretion that then ruled Roman strategy. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- After the fall of Carthage the Roman imagination went wild with the hitherto unknown possibilities of finance. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The Holy Roman Empire struggled on indeed to the days of Napoleon, but as an invalid and dying thing. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The ordinary Roman citizen, like the ordinary Boer, was a farmer; at the summons of his country he went on commando. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- In the time of Servius Tullius, who first coined money at Rome, the Roman as or pondo contained a Roman pound of good copper. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- But he hasn't borne the Roman yoke as I have, nor yet he hasn't been required to pander to your depraved appetite for miserly characters. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- The Roman colonies furnished occasionally both the one and the other. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- It was a war between the idea of a united Italy and the idea of the rule of the Roman Senate. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The Polish language was banned, and the Greek Orthodox church was substituted for the Roman Catholic as the State religion. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- As the Roman world was divided into the eastern and western halves, so was the Chinese world into the southern and the northern. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Whenever he met the Romans in open fight he beat them. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The Greeks derived their musical instruments from the Egyptians, and the Romans borrowed theirs from the Greeks, but neither the Greeks nor the Romans invented any. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- There was no such settling down behind a final frontier on the part of the Chinese as we see in the case of the Romans at the Rhine and Danube. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Grape juice mixed with millet ferments quickly and strongly, and the Romans learned to use this mixture for bread raising, kneading a very small amount of it through the dough. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- The Greeks were conquered by the Romans in 146 B.C,but before tha t time Roman life and institutions had been touched by Hellenic culture. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- We know that the Romans and other ancient peoples had their hydraulic cements, and the plaster on some of their walls stands to-day to attest its good quality. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- So rude was the native culture of the Romans that it is doubtful whether they had any schools before the advent of Greek learning. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- The Romans, for example, never had needles comparable to those of the Magdalenian epoch. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- But among the Romans there was nothing which corresponded to the musical education of the Greeks. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- This the Romans besieged, and a period of trench warfare ensued. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The Romans came out upon the sea, and to the astonishment of the Carthaginians and themselves defeated the Carthaginian fleet. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- At the battle of Myl? (260 B.C.) the Romans gained their first naval victory and captured or destroyed fifty vessels. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- True it called itself Roman and its people Romans, and to this day modern Greek is called Romaic. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The same unimaginative quality made the Romans leave the seaways of the Mediterranean undeveloped. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- This the Romans did by giving to two days in leap-year the same name; t hus the sixth day before the first of March was repeated, and leap-year was known as a bissextile year. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
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